Entry Index: 589
Position: No position
Date by Position: 4 February 1881
Logbook Volume: 3 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 3
No observations Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 35 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 35 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 435 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 32 tons 1703 lbs Max. temperature = 0.5° Min. temperature = -5.5° The pumping forward is done by hand at the spar deck bilge pump, and such water as filters aft through and under the bulkhead into the fire room is pumped out by hand at the bilge pump attached to the main engine. The Baxter boiler is used for distilling. Sounded in 37 fathoms. Clean lead. A rapid drift to N. x W. being indicated by the lead line. Weather dull and gloomy. Fresh breezes from S.S.E. and S.E. x S. with rapidly falling barometer and increasing temperature. Steady snow fall from 12.30pm to midnight. Moon 15° N. New moon
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | sse | 30.13 | 51.0 | -6.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 6 | sse | 30.01 | 47.0 | -6.5 | — | — | oc |
| 9 | sse | 29.98 | 54.0 | -5.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 12 | sse | 29.89 | 42.0 | -5.5 | — | — | oc |
| 15 | sexs | 29.84 | 51.0 | -4.0 | — | — | ocs |
| 18 | sexs | 29.78 | 55.0 | -0.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 21 | sexs | 29.74 | 59.0 | 0.5 | — | — | ocs |
| 24 | sexs | 29.67 | 57.0 | 0.5 | — | — | ocs |